Mpofu insists the EFF’s comments about Indians are not an attack on any race.

He says: “We are just saying these are the realities, how do we address them?”

He says the writing is on the wall with voting patterns.

“You don’t have to be a genius. You just have to go to the IEC and it will show you that in every single Indian area, the majority of the votes go to the DA. In a so-called African area, the majority of the votes would go to the ANC. That is not a coincidence. It is a fact of life caused by privilege.

“The DA represents the desire to preserve the status-quo or not to change it too much, but just change it on the fringes. Why would someone who had been oppressed, like an Indian, vote for the DA? Probably because they feel the same threat by the African domination as a white person,” Mpofu argues.

Fakir says Mpofu’s argument is factually wrong.

“There is a fundamental truth that we can make a concession about. Racism is rife in South Africa, but it is rife across all communities.

“It is true to say that the majority of Indians may be racist, but the premises on which Dali, Julius Malema and Floyd Shivambu based their claims on are fundamentally incorrect and factually wrong.

“It is true, but trite. Tell us something we didn’t know. Bigotry, prejudice, perceptions of people who are different from you are common across all societies and racial groups,” he says.

Fakir says the EFF’s claims around voting is flimsy.

“I don’t know which stats the EFF is looking at. If you look at the Indian areas between 1994 at least until 2009, actually in Indian areas, voting returns were returning the ANC in the majority. Even my own claim is a flimsy one,

“Methodologically it is impossible to track any voting station and say this is primarily a voting station comprising of voters of a specific identity. Post-1994, the demographic and spatial changes in former-indian, coloured and white areas has ensured that the demographic of voters in those areas are not exclusively of a specific identity,” Fakir counters.

That’s me totally surrounded by members of “The Mob”!😂
Seriously,thanks for a good debate @EbrahimFakir and @JJTabane

“The majority of Indians are racists… they see themselves [as] better than most of us. Even coloureds see themselves [as] better than blacks,” he said.

Malema is sticking to his guns.

He is not the only EFF leader to have commented on this very topic.

EFF deputy president and chief whip Shivambu is unapologetic about his views on Ismail Momoniat and insists that the deputy director-general undermines his African colleagues at National Treasury.

“There are a lot of people of Indian descendant who think Africans are inferior. It’s a fact. We have received a lot of complaints about him [Momoniat] refusing to increase the salaries of black employees, while other employees of other races received raises,” Shivambu told Iman Rappetti during a recent interview.